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New Zealand Defense Minister Gerry Brownlee left for Fiji Tuesday to see New Zealand forces helping the Pacific island nation recover from the devastation of last month's cyclone.
Death toll in Fiji from severe tropical cyclone Winston has risen to 28, the government-owned Fiji Broadcasting Corporation confirmed Tuesday.
Australia's first cyclone of the season could batter the country's remote northeast next week as monsoon conditions develop, meteorologists said on Tuesday.
The Pacific island nations are looking well-prepared for a possibly worse-than-usual cyclone season despite countries such as Tonga coping with a drought after a dry year, a senior New Zealand Red Cross official said Monday.
At least 22 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands affected by flash flood in the cyclone-hit eastern Indian states of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh due to heavy rains over the past few days, said local TV channel CNN- IBN Friday.
At least 23 people were killed in a powerful tropical cyclone which hit the eastern Indian state of Odisha and the neighboring southern state of Andhra Pradesh late Saturday night, causing heavy rainfall and sending seawater surging inland, the authorities said Monday.
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